FROM THE DESK OF DR.SALIF IBRAHIMACCOUNTS & AUDIT DEPERTMENT,BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO. ATTN: URGENT DEAR FRIENDI am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank Of Africa, Ouagadougou.It is my utmost pleasure to send you this confidential message. In my search for a reliable business partner overseas, i got your contact in the internet and was impressed with your profile hence my interest in doing business with you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $18.3m US dollars (Eighteen million, three hundred thousand US dollars) .In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family on Monday,31 may, 2000 in a plane crash out side paris.Please visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in other to swallow the money at the end oftheday,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stmSince we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crashleaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained Unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 65 % would be for me and my colleagues.There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted .Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.I expect that you contact me as soon as you receive this mail or If you which me to contact you via your telephone or fax or po box I will do that as well.You can also contact me via my alternative email address (salifibrah@yahoo.fr)Yours faithfully,DR.SALIF IBRAHIMAccounts & Audit Department ,BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)

There\’s a thriving Nigerian industry doing this and one can only imagine the number of people falling a victim considering these guys have made this a fulltime employment opportunity in their country!

Digg, (the better /. and a whole LOT more), has a very useful spell checker for people who care to comment & check their spelling. But the spell checker flags the most important word on the Internet these days – "blog". That’s right! Try it out for yourself on Digg. It doesn’t recognize "weblog" too!

It’s probably a result of using an existing but old spell checking library – but it’s a significant oversight, IMHO!

I wonder if the Firefox 2.0 spell checker has the same problem – will check it out when I go back home from work.

Update: Firefox spell checker has the same problem.

BTW Office 2007 Beta2 spell checker DOES recognize these two words. At least the Office team gets it!

4th of July parade: The parade started at around 10:30 am. It was all very casual. No speeches,
no politicians pushing propaganda, no military march-past. A lot of importance
is given to public services (Fire dept., Police, Medics etc.). Nothing “political”
about it :). But, right at the end of the parade, there were groups of people
asking for votes for those standing for various elections. There was a US Navy
helicopter fly-past. That’s about it! They call it the 4th of July parade – I didn’t hear anyone mention about it being their Independence Day. I guess they have been ‘independent’ for far too long to even notice!

Fireworks at the Naval station: The city had arranged for
fireworks at the Everett Naval Station. My passport was good enough for them to
allow me in :). There was some good music and other events while everyone
waited for the Sun to set. The sunset on the waterfront was beautiful. The
Sun finally decided to go down at around 9:30
pm and it was dark by 10:15 pm. Fireworks started at 10:20 pm
and lasted for nearly 25 minutes. It was pretty good too. After it was done, I boarded
the bus back to the main bus station and walked home (nearly 2 km) at 11:30 pm – that wasn’t the brightest thing to
do at that late hour, but I had no choice!

Somehow I think the hours mentioned there would correspond with 7/8pm indian time. 7pm would definitely see sundown out here. By having 7pm made into 10pm they can enjoy more hours with sunlight in the evening and that helps save power with ppl enjoying outdoor activities i guess.
As for the world cup, France seems to have enjoyed another great run for a team that\’s all but retired. Italy did well to score those late goals against Germany and seem to have an edge in their attack. May the best team win (and yeah…in 90 minutes 🙂

I went to Downtown Seattle today (3rd July). This is a Windows Live Local collection of my trip there. Click on the link below for the full tour. In Windows Live Local, for each point, select the Bird’s Eye View for a great view of that place.

Nice use of live local and hope u r all set to enjoy the 4th of celebrations out there! After the exit of the south americans soccer fever seems to have come down a bit. The rain clouds are however back in attendance here though not as much as in Mumbai. Enjoy the day!

It surely is! This webpage doesn’t even display a bit of the news item you are viewing until you scroll. It’s a full page banner Ad! Keep away from this website! (Because they don’t want you to read the news!!!!)

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